“The only reason we don’t open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don’t feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else’s eyes. ”

And…

“When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love and care about other people and your capacity to not be afraid. You’re able to keep your eyes open, your heart open, and your mind open. And you notice when you get caught up in prejudice, bias, and aggression. You develop an enthusiasm for no longer watering those negative seeds, from now until the day you die. And, you begin to think of your life as offering endless opportunities to start to do things differently.”

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[…] Rumi was all of those things, and I feel encouraged and uplifted when I read his words. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about language, ideas, even the phrase each other doesn’t make any sense” […]

Total crap. I clicked it for rumi. I hope you people start writing better articles. First when I saw this website, I was impressed by the choice of topics. But looking at the quality of articles has disappointed me.

This is more like a Facebook post. What is the message behind this? Are you trying to tell people they should cheat? Do you have a problem with people being committed to one another? I'm noticing this more and more on this site.